Sunday, March 02, 2014

(Newser) - You could remember it this way: "A pizza is a circle, and the area of a circle increases with the square of the radius." Or in a much simpler way: Always buy the bigger pizza. So declares Quoctrung Bui at NPR's blog, whose post on the comparative values of pizzas got quite a bit of attention this week. With geometry and impressive graphics on his side, Bui points out that a 16-inch pizza is four times larger than an 8-inch pizza, even though the price difference doesn't reflect that. So always go big or you're wasting money, he argues."

(Newser) - You could remember it this way: "A pizza is a circle, and the area of a circle increases with the square of the radius." Or in a much simpler way: Always buy the bigger pizza. So declares Quoctrung Bui at NPR's blog, whose post on the comparative values of pizzas got quite a bit of attention this week. With geometry and impressive graphics on his side, Bui points out that a 16-inch pizza is four times larger than an 8-inch pizza, even though the price difference doesn't reflect that. So always go big or you're wasting money, he argues."